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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TheMont, post: 2696836, member: 80121&quot;]I to went to a University and received my four year degree in Biology.&nbsp; This must have caught the attention of the U.S. Army, because within a year I was drafted, trained as a Para-Medic and did a tour in Viet Nam. Upon coming home, I went back to school and got my Masters in Biology. I had originally planned on a career in medicine, but after what I said and had to do in Viet Nam (I was a &quot;Dust-off&quot; medic, I was taken by helicopter to a CZ, dropped down by cable, and stabilized wounded soldiers until the fighting stopped and the helicopters could land and pick-up the wounded). I revised my plans, with the agreement of my wife (I was married four months when they drafted me) I went back to school and instead of pre-med, received a M.A.T. in teaching. For the next thirty years I taught Biology in the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. High School. In 1993 I was named Teacher of the year for my innovation of bringing Special Ed kids into the Computer program in the town&#039;s schools.</p><p><br /></p><p>While not having a formal education in economics, I studied, listened, and learned enough to provide a very comfortable retirement for my wife and myself. The reason I have given the above information is to give you an idea of where and how my opinions were and continue to be formed. I believe that people can disagree with each other and be civil about it, I believe that people who generalize about a topic are generally wrong, I believe people who are arrogant and pompous are not worth the time and effort to try and have an intelligent conversation with. I especially believe that people who have a set opinion about a topic and are not willing to listen to the other side of that topic are not worth trying to have an intelligent conversation with.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;Economics is not a science, it is an art. You study and learn as much about it as you can, then you make decisions that based on that study work best for you. Only big government takes the position that &quot;they&quot; know best for the little people and we should just be quiet and listen and go along with what they tell us to do. I thank God that I lived and grew up during the time period that I did. A time when individual actions and thoughts were not just accepted, but encouraged. I worry about and the lives my grandchildren will have in the current state our country is in.</p><p><br /></p><p>I give my best advise to my children, when they come to me and ask for it, but I do not tell them how to live their lives or how to think about things. I was the first in my family to receive a B.S. and a M.S., my daughter is the first to receive a PhD. Having said all of the above I would never belittle someone else, because of what they believe or tell them how they should live their lives. When asked my opinion, I give it in as little a confrontational manner as I can and I am always open to listening to the other persons point of view.</p><p><br /></p><p>Having coin collecting as part of investment strategy for over 50 years has worked well for me. I have won more than I have lost and that is really all you can ask for. As I&#039;ve stated before, I believe that having coins, in precious metal, is better&nbsp; than just &quot;stacking&quot; gold and/or silver rounds or bars. I already, in this forum, have given the reasons why I feel this way, so I will not repeat myself. </p><p><br /></p><p>I believe that each person should do what works best for them and not let someone else tell them what they think they should think or do. Don&#039;t close your mind, listen to what other people have to say and then make your own decisions on what works best for you. I apologize for the length of this post, but I&#039;m getting tired of reading posts from people who profess to know better than anyone else and state that what they say is the only way to do things or is the only way to think. I&#039;m a big believer in reading, in coin collecting there&#039;s a saying, &quot;buy the book before the coin&quot;, I believe that &quot;buying the book&quot; also applies to life.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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